A Full Guide to Download Videos from TubiTV for Offline Watch

Key Takeaways:

• You can easily download streaming videos from Tubitv.com with a third-party video downloader program, online downloader or chrome extension.
• Certain DRM-protected content on Tubi cannot be downloaded. Decrypting and downloading the content is illegal in all regions where Tubi is available.
• Tubi offers a range of video qualities up to 720p. To ensure best quality, it's better to use a downloader software that supports HD downloads at the original bitrate.

Tubi is the most watched free ad-supported entertainment streamer, available in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and some Latin American countries. While we can watch all movies, TV dramas and live channels online for free, commercials take up every 12-15 minutes during playback. And Tubi doesn't offer any download option for offline watch. This article will cover the best tools for downloading Tubi videos to your computer or mobile device.

#1. Bulk Download Movies and TV Dramas from Tubi with Best Video Downloader

A desktop video downloader is always the most reliable way to download from a major streaming platform like Tubi. Cisdem Video Converter is an easy-to-use and powerful option that we highly recommend. With this video downloader and manager for Windows/Mac, you will be able to:

• download films, TV shows, anime series, etc. from Tubitv with URLs
• download Tubi videos to MP4
• keep original quality without re-encoding
• batch download all episodes of TV series in one go
• view video file size before download
• also save videos from many other platforms, like YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, LinkedIn, to mention a few.
• convert/edit/compress videos

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How to download videos from Tubi on Windows/Mac:

1. Visit Tubitv.com and copy the video URL of your wanted movie or TV show from the browser address bar.
2. Download and launch Cisdem Video Converter, go to its video download module by clicking the middle icon.
3. Paste the copied URL to the bottom box, and click "+" to parse the link. To add multiple URLs, just click the Add button in lower left corner and enter URLs in a pop-up box.
4. When the video is successfully added, you can view all download options from the "Format" list. Choose MP4 (avc1) in your preferred quality level. Note: Some videos are also encoded in hvc, or HEVC codec, which offers about 50% smaller file size for the same quality, but your native players may not play it.
5. Click "Save to" box to select where to store the downloaded videos, and click the "Start" button to begin downloading the videos in batch.
6. Then the down-arrow to the right of the video thumbnail will turn into a download progress bar. When the download is complete, the progress bar will turn into a blue checkmark, click on it to quickly locate the video file.

More Tips:

1. Mass download selected episodes of a TV series

If you enter a Tubi TV show URL like this: https://tubitv.com/series/1234/title-series, it will add all videos under that page across all seasons. You can uncheck the box in the upper left corner of a video to exclude it from the download queue.

2. If the the URL fails to load due to DRM protection

Cisdem Video Converter is a universal downloader supporting a variety of sites. You can search the protected full movie or TV show on YouTube or other free streaming platforms and download it with the same steps.

3. Convert downloaded videos to other formats

Drag the downloaded video files into the first module, click the “Convert all tasks to” button to open the format list, choose a target video/audio format, or select a preset profile for your playback device like iPhone and iPad to ensure the best compatibility.

4. Integrate subtitles to the Tubi video permanently

If needed, you can download the video subtitles from Tubi, then hardcode the subtitles to the video with the converter's editing tool. Simply import the video to the last module of Cisdem, go to the Subtitle tab in the editor, then embed the subtitles file by clicking "External Subtitles > Other".

#2. Free Online Downloaders that Download Tubi Videos

I tested dozens of web-based video downloaders and only two work with Tubi videos. Both sites have their pros and cons.

Yout.com

Yout is an online tool used to shift videos from various platforms to MP4, MP3 or WAV. One thing I like most is its zero-ad clean site. It can download individual videos from Tubi for free with the quality of 480p or lower. For better quality like 720p HD and other features, users have to pay an annual/monthly subscription.

Steps:

1. Go to https://yout.com/, paste the URL of a Tubi video into the search bar. It will start analyze the URL automatically.
2. In the video download page, choose MP4 as the output format, then select the quality level. Check the H.264 option to avoid compatibility issues. Adding subtitles and video cropping are paid features.
3. Click the “Format Shift to MP4” button to start downloading the video from Tubi. The video will be saved to browser default download folder.

Savethevideo.com

This online Tubi video downloader allows you download videos to MP4 in 720p HD for free. You will be able to cut the video and download the subtitles file. However, this site is ad-supported and the download speed is rather slow. And the download could fail if you need to download a long movie.

Steps:

1. Go to https://www.savethevideo.com/home and paste a Tubi video link to the URL box.
2. Click “Start” to parse the link. (It may redirect you to an advert page, just close it.)
3. Click the "Merge" tab and select the video quality. Most Tubi videos require merging audio and video streams.
4. Click the Merge button to start downloading the video.

Download Tubi Videos with a Chrome Extension

Some browser extensions allows you to download a Tubi video without leaving the page.

Video doownloader - CocoCut is a popular free video downloader Chrome extension, it can detect and download videos on Tubi TV smoothly. But it cannot merge the separated audio and video streams, so you may have to download video and audio and then merge them manually. Also, this browser plugin may slow down your Chrome.

1. Search for “video downloader - cococut” extension in the Chrome Web Store and add it to Chrome. It’s also available in Edge.
2. Go to Tubitv and play the video you want to download.
3. Find the extension icon in the extension toolbar list and click it. A panel will appear to display all the media streams it detects.
4. Choose a download option and click on the download icon. If you don’t know which to choose, click the Play icon to preview it.
5. You will be directed to a new tab, where you can choose a video resolution and start the download process.
6. When the download is complete, click the Save button to save the MP4 file to your local folder.

How to Download Subtitles/CC from Tubi

Tubi provides English subtitles as timed text (SRT) embedded in the video stream. According to my tests, you can manually extract the subtitles off Tubitv from the page source code. Here are the steps:

1. Open a Tubi video in your web browser, like Chrome and Firefox.
2. Right-click on the video page, and select “View page source”.
3. Press Ctrl+F to bring up the search bar and type ".srt" to quickly find the subtitle URL. 
4. Copy the full URL from http to .srt and paste it to the address bar.
5. Remove all the “u002F” characters from the URL, and you will get the subtitle download link like this: 
6. Press Enter to open the new URL, and the subtitle file (.srt) should be downloaded soon.

Then you can view the subtitle on the video as an external subtitle file, or hardcode the subtitle to the video with Cisdem Video Converter or other video editors.

If the manual extraction fails, another way is to use downsub.com. It’s a web app that can download subtitles from Tubi with video URL.

Final Words

With the right downloader and steps outlined in this guide, you can enjoy TubiTV content anytime anywhere, even if Tubi takes off the video due to license expiration.

It's worth noting that Tubi delivers content based on the country you live in. If a movie or TV show is not accessible in your country, try using a VPN to change your IP address to the US or other available region to get full access to Tubi’s library of over 200,000 movies and TV episodes, and download favorites with the tools above.